Port Authority announces detours for marathon weekend
Service on Port Authority buses will be “extensively detoured” this weekend due to street closures for the Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon and related events, the transit agency announced today. Additional service will also be implemented on the busways, inclines and light-rail systems for runners to get to the downtown starting line. The agency will…
Help Redesign Louisa Street in Oakland
The Oakland Planning and Development Corporation will hold a public meeting Thursday, May 2, for input on redesigning Louisa Street. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the Oakland Career Center, 294 Semple St. From the looks of the flyer, there are some ideas percolating — like a “bike boulevard” through Central Oakland.…
May Day march tomorrow for immigrant rights
A coalition of groups will march tomorrow to celebrate and advance the rights of immigrants. The rally will take place at 5:00 p.m., at the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers, 10 South 19th St., South Side. The group will then march to the IBEW Hall, 5 Hot Metal St., South Side. Among the groups marching will…
Lynn Cullen Live 04/30/13
Video Archive Phone guest: Susan; Pittsburgh Pirates beat St. Louis….this time; no one wants Tim Tebow; Pittsburgh Penguins are like Will Smith; NBA player Jason Collins came out of the closet; why we’re happy Mike Wallace isn’t on our team anymore; acceptance of homosexuality today; homosexuality in the black community; Billy Porter nominated for a…
Arts Festival Programming Announced
Musical acts, arts installation, Point fountain reopening all part of the show
Cartoonist Matt Bors coming to Toonseum
Nationally syndicated cartoonist Matt Bors returns to Pittsburgh.
Free summer concerts include Bob Mould, Glen Hansard, Rickie Lee Jones
Today marks the announcement of both the Three Rivers Arts Festival music lineup and the Allegheny County Parks’ concert series; head on over to FFW>> to get a look at the big names on this year’s lineups.
Summer free-concert dates start rolling in
Three Rivers Arts Festival and Allegheny County Parks announce their concert lineups for 2013.
Review: Fleetwood Mac
Three years have passed since Fleetwood Mac’s last tour, but their performance at Consol Energy Center last night proved their on-stage spark is hardly exhausted. For about two and a half hours, the band sent the crowd on a nostalgic journey through their back catalog with many of their greatest hits, as well as a…
Mayoral campaign about to get next-level?
Allies of Bill Peduto are bracing for what they expect will be a negative attack, launched by an independent political committee whose finances are murky, but appears to have ties to Mayor Luke Ravenstahl. At 10:30 last night, Peduto’s campaign sent out a blast e-mail to supporters, advising them that “For the first time in…
Lynn Cullen Live 04/29/13
Video Archive Pittsburgh Pirates in 1st place!; Tim Tebow let go; negative ads toward Peduto on TV; White House Correspondents Dinner; Calista Gingrich’s hair….; Obama the entertainer; what Sandra Day O’ Connor regrets; technology to send a text by thinking it; robots who can anticipate what humans want before they think it; we need regular…
Local Arts CSAs Announced
There’s a new way to support local performing and visual artists — actually two new projects that do so — and they’re previewed at tonight’s Gallery Crawl. Details in Program Notes.
Local Arts CSAs Announced
Art-lovers can buy shares in local performances and artworks
A George Jones Tribute from Beyond
A George Jones Tribute from Beyond
House Democratic Policy Committee to hold hearing on health care access Monday
The House Democratic Policy Committee will hold a public hearing on Community Blue customers’ access to health care providers. The hearing will be held from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mon., April 29, in the Allegheny County Council Gold Room, 436 Grant St., Downtown. State Reps. Dan Frankel, Democratic Caucus chairman, and Tony DeLuca, Democratic…
Lynn Cullen Live 04/26/13
Video Archive Guests: Aron Zelkowicz, director of The Dybbuk / Tom Sokolowski; The Dubbyk @ The New Hazlett Theatre, multi-media opera part of the Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival; Pittsburgh’s poor audience etiquette; George Bush Sr,’s jazzy socks at W’s library opening; art is all about evocation; effects of sequestration; Obits: Shakuntala Devi, human computer /…
Pennsylvania takes step toward legalizing online gambling
Bill introduced to legalize online gambling
Benefit tonight for local auto-vs.-bike crash victim
On the morning of March 13, the driver of a car — described by witnesses as likely a Lincoln MKZ or a similar model — hit a cyclist at the corner of Liberty and Mathilda in Bloomfield. The driver fled the scene and was never caught; the victim, a longtime member of the local arts…
The mayoral race: a black perspective
Like other papers, we get a lot of unsolicited letters to the editor, in which folks unburden themselves on issues of the day. We tend not to run these, largely because they’re often sent to other media outlets too, who are able to print them sooner. But this one was too good to pass up.…
Lynn Cullen Live 04/25/13
Video Archive Lynn in HD!; Rev. Jeremiah Wright speaking in Pgh tonight; The People Speak student event @ CAPA; Crystal Eastman’s radical speech in 1920, still radical today — wanted gov’t to pay stay at home mothers; factory collapse in Bangladesh; we need to downsize our closets; people on the terrorist watch list were able…
Welcome Home Taylor Gang’s Chevy Woods
Club Zoo & Taylor Gang Present Chevy Woods: Welcome Home Show, with special guests Boaz, Quay Meanz, and DJ GQ.
“Sex, Violence and the Human Body” at the History Center
Curator discusses cultural changes of the 1960s
Planned Parenthood and other endorsements
This week, we wrote about where the three major Democratic candidates for mayor stood on social issues from LGBT rights to women’s issues. Today, Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania PAC announced its endorsements for local primary races and special elections. (The organization also publishes a voters’ guide on the candidates that is not yet published.) Here are…
Join a Indie-Film Preview Club
Gathr brings pre-paid indie-film sneak previews to Hollywood Theater in Dormont
Our Class at Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre
OUR CLASS continues through May 4. Stephen Foster Memorial Theatre Forbes Avenue at Bigelow Boulevard Oakland. $25-48. 412-561-6000 or picttheatre.org In 1941, in the Polish village of Jedwabne, a large group of Jewish residents were locked in a barn and burned alive … and 70 years later, those are the only facts everyone agrees on.…
Helping Out: Trevor Project offers hope to teens struggling for LGBT acceptance
Everywhere you look, people are changing their minds about gay marriage, and publically supporting LGBT loved ones and neighbors. Well, maybe not everywhere you look. “I go to a small rural school outside Pittsburgh where the population is 99 percent white and 99 percent straight. … I also get bullied a lot. Not physically, but…
A classic supernatural tale gets the operatic treatment at the Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival.
Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival presents THE DYBBUK: BETWEEN TWO WORLDS 7:30 p.m. Thu., April 25, and 7:30 p.m. Sun., April 28. New Hazlett Theater 6 Allegheny Square East North Side. $15-30. pittsburghsymphony.org/dybbuk How far would you go to be with the one you love? That is the central question in Ofer Ben-Amots’ multimedia chamber opera…
A Show of Hands
Angel Mahnick hunches down at a tiny blue table, sandwiched between five little kids: boys and girls, black and white, average age 4. The teacher’s aide doles out milk and water, pudding cups and cookies. Using her fingers, she counts out animal crackers for a small boy in a gray sweat suit. “Do you want…
Comic and singer Sandra Bernhard returns to Pittsburgh for the first time in years with her new show
SANDRA BERNHARD’S I LOVE BEING ME, DON’T YOU? 8 p.m. Sat., April 27. Byham Theater 101 Sixth St., Downtown. $35-40. 412-456-6666 or trustarts.org For 30 years, Sandra Bernhard’s seldom been far from the public eye, from her breakout role in Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy (1983) and a stint on Roseanne to dozens of…
Savage Love
DEAR READERS: Last week was made of problems: the bombing of the Boston Marathon, the explosion that leveled a small town in Texas, the rising tide of antigay violence in France, the North Koreans being North Korean. And it occurred to me that the last thing the world needs is more problems. So this week…
Oblivion
Oblivion Directed by: Joseph Kosinski Starring: Tom Cruise, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough Earth is a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Starting in 2017, aliens attacked, nukes were set off, and somebody blew up the moon. By 2077, there are only two people left, coordinating the last bit of resource extraction before joining the rest of humanity near Saturn…
Short List: April 24 – May 2
SPOTLIGHT — Sat., April 27 — Comedy “I don’t have penis envy,” quips trans-man comedian Ian Harvie. “I have three of them in my top drawer at home.” Harvie was born a girl, in small-town Maine. He was past 30 — and two years into his standup-comedy career — when he had chest surgery and…
The Angels’ Share
The Angels’ Share Starts Fri., April 26. Regent Square Robbie Emmerson (Paul Brannigan) is angry. He’s 24 years old, the product of hoodlum parents, and he’s doing 300 hours of “community payback” in Glasgow for beating up some guys. He has a patient and sensible girlfriend, a good influence, who just gave birth to their…
Red Orchid
Red Orchid 5439 Babcock Blvd., West View. 412-837-2527 Hours: Mon.-Thu. 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sun. 1-9 p.m. Prices: Appetizers, soups and salads $3.50-9.50; dinner entrees $11-16 Liquor: BYOB We can’t deny rooting for the little guy. Patronizing small, local businesses is good for the local economy, of course, and it also feels…
The Company You Keep
A stellar cast of indie-film workhorses such as Stanley Tucci, Chris Cooper, Brendan Gleeson, Richard Jenkins and Julie Christie can’t give Robert Redford’s lackluster thriller the oomph it needs. Redford (craggy and ageless) portrays a lawyer who goes on the run when a young reporter (an unconvincing Shia LaBeouf) uncovers his connection to a long-ago…
Meat and Greet
“Am I going to be OK if I usually add a little olive oil to my burgers when I mix them up?” Jay Alman, of Highland Park, asks D.J. Smulick, the owner of D.J.’s Butcher Shop in Bloomfield. It’s just one of the questions that Alman, a first-time customer, has about the bacon-cheeseburgers he wants…
Mud
On a small island in a remote part of the Mississippi River in Arkansas, two 14-year-old boys — Ellis and Neckbone — are astonished to find a boat high in the trees (left by a flood) and a man named Mud living in it. The amiable Mud (Matthew McConaughey) spins the lads a number of…
On-tap cocktails offer distinctive flavor — and they’re fast, too
“We get a lot of people that say, ‘I came here to watch a cocktail made,'” says Lynn Thomas, one of the partners who owns South Side’s Acacia. But Acacia also offers a different spectacle: cocktails poured from a tap. And while it may not be quite so visually impressive, Thomas says, “This is a…
The Sapphires
In the late 1960s, four young Aboriginal women, under the haphazard tutelage of their soul-loving Irish manager (Chris O’Dowd), set sail for Vietnam to sing for the troops. Wayne Blair’s film is complete piffle, an utterly predictable rom-com juiced up with some Aboriginal civil-rights history and ’60s pop music, and starring wobbly actors you’ve never…
Sal’s City Deli, in Downtown Pittsburgh, offers more the standard lunch fare
I may have married a New York stater, but my first interaction with the state’s popular “beef on weck” sandwich came thanks to Sal’s City Deli, right here in Downtown Pittsburgh. The deli features the Western New York staple — a pile of slow-roasted, rare roast beef on a Kümmelweck roll, with a side of…
Sound City
It was a grubby place in the no-glam San Fernando Valley, but Sound City recording studio was where some of the most popular and influential rock albums of all time were recorded. In its heyday, it was beloved by musicians and producers for friendly staff, a commitment to the essentials of rock ‘n’ roll, and…
Lynn Cullen Live 04/24/13
Video Archive Guest: Chris Potter; how the AP Twitter hoax took a toll on Wall St.; people taking Onion stories for fact; we are all just cavemen with smartphones; Caucasian comes from Chechnya; immigration issues; Elvis impersonator exonerated from ricin case; Netherlands is the best place to be born; sequester affecting air traffic controllers, Republicans…
Gangstagrass plays basically what you’d expect from a band called Gangstagrass
GANGSTAGRASS with SHELF LIFE STRING BAND, MEGA DEF. 9 p.m. Thu., April 25. Howlers Coyote Café 4509 Liberty Ave. Bloomfield. $7. 412-682-0320 or howlerscoyotecafe.com Remember when gangsta rap was being decried as the most violent and degenerate form of music ever created? When even the President of the United States was pressuring Warner Brothers to…
Bill Deasy finds a fresh start with the help of producer Chris Parker
BILL DEASY CD RELEASE. 8 p.m. Fri., April 26. Oaks Theater, 310 Allegheny River Blvd. Oakmont. Sold out at press time. 412-828-6311 Strictly speaking, Bill Deasy didn’t really go anywhere: The onetime Gathering Field frontman has been releasing solo albums for over a decade, the most recent in 2009. He is a published novelist as…
A local ensemble unites to re-create The Who’s Tommy
THE WHO’S TOMMY performed by Pittsburgh musicians. 7 p.m. Fri., April 26. 56 S. 12th St. South Side. $10. 412-431-4950 or clubcafelive.com At age 11, Nathan Zoob listened to The Who’s Tommy for the first time. “I laid down on the couch, closed my eyes and had probably one of the first transformative experiences of…
Critics’ Picks: April 24 – 30
[INDIE ROCK] + FRI., APRIL 26 In a world where the term “indie” has largely lost its meaning, Cincinnati’s Wussy remains a shining example of what indie rock once was. The four-piece is critically acclaimed but not exactly a household name; its fuzzy guitar-rock and slightly awkward, untrained vocals hearken back to the lo-fi early…
Release the Firkins – CP TV
Pittsburgh Craft Beer Week
New Releases
Proseed Depth in Shallows (Self-released) On his third album, Proseed may have his most cohesively fulfilling project. His at-times unorthodox rhyme scheme channels MCs like Pharoahe Monch, while the subject matter fits the mold of Rhymesayers Records. He mines personal experience, as expressed in the love story told on “Real Security.” Germany’s Ulliversal handles the…
A Heinz Architectural Center 20th-anniversary show suggests what really matters about the craft.
20/20: CELEBRATING TWO DECADES OF THE HEINZ ARCHITECTURAL CENTER continues through May 19. Carnegie Museum of Art 4400 Forbes Ave. Oakland. 412-622-3131 or cmoa.org The Heinz Architectural Center opened 20 years ago. I worked there two summers as a graduate-student intern helping to prepare for its opening, and I remember wishing it were a free-standing…
Clean Slate: New faces will tackle PPS issues as board readies for largest turnover in decades
In the warm night air, standing near the steps of the Homewood branch of the Carnegie Library, two candidates seeking seats on the Pittsburgh Board of Public Education continued their debate over whether schools should lock down doors during the day. Both were intense, carrying the discussion over from one that had started earlier in…
Safe Light challenges the notion that analog and digital photography are incompatible or oppositional
SAFE LIGHT continues through the May 3 closing reception. Irma Freeman Center for Imagination 5006 Penn Ave. Bloomfield. 412-924-634 or irmafreeman.org Darkrooms are isolated and self-contained spaces, places where time and light operate under special rules. Entering Dennis Childers and Nick Childers’ installation Safe Light, there is a noticeable change in temperature, a low hum.…
On social issues, mayoral candidates have similar positions, but different histories
In local elections, voters are often more concerned with salting roads than with social issues. But civil-rights advocates say that even local officials can do much to advance — or hinder — causes like reproductive freedom and LGBT equality. “From same-sex partner benefits for city employees … to economic development initiatives, mayor[s] can have a…
